Difference in Material Properties Area

Question

Not even one minute in and I noticed that my "Surface" drop down doesn't have a feature "Use Nodes". Something I missed in the set up? I'm using 4.2 if that has any bearing.

EDIT: Yeah, my Shader Editor doesn't show it either; although, it's obviously using nodes

Answer 1 · 2024-08-29T16:25:26Z

Omar Domenech replied August 29, 2024 4:25pm

This course was not recorded with 4.2, it's with 4.0 and things have changed a bit. It's better if you follow along with Blender 4.0 in this case, so the discrepancies aren't too much.

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Answer 2 · 2024-08-29T18:23:14Z

Martin Bergwerf replied August 29, 2024 6:23pm

Yeah, the Use Nodes can mostly just be ignored, it is in most places more or less a remainder of old Blender (pre-2.8), but if you disable Use Nodes, Blender doesn't use the Nodes.

In 4.2 we have:

Versus:

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Answer 3 · 2024-08-30T01:43:43Z

replied August 30, 2024 1:43am

OOmar Domenech... I thank you for the confirmation

MMartin Bergwerf... appreciate the comparison

I'll try to keep my quirky observations to a minimum, but thank you both

🤘🏻

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